A few years ago, I bought a sweater quantity of yarn from Midknit Cravings. It was in the London Fog colourway, which I just loved. It is the picture of sophisticated, homey casual, grungy, misty, elegant soft grey, green, teal, copper speckled perfection. It could be what you wear every day or that one sweater you mark your special days in. I loved the colourway and the yarn so much I bought a couple more sweaters worth in different colourways.
I am making up this sweater as I go along. Sort of. I have a general idea but no numbers, so when the numbers do not do what I need them to do, I need to rip back. On this one, I was at the length I needed but I was about 8 inches from where I needed to be on the width. Some of those inches are underarm inches and about an inch and a half was the base of my v neck, but not nearly enough of the missing stitches could be put to those areas. I needed to up my increases at the underarms and a bit at the v neck.
Yesterday looked like this.
It's about half off the needles here, well on its way to correction. Sadly there needs to be a repeat of several inches of knitting but there you go.
It is huge weight off my mind to have this done. It could stall to my focus on keeping things from sitting forever in the WIPs bin. I start things because I want to wear them. I need to work on all of them to get them done. I do not need something I want sitting in the bin stuck because of one small problem.
I have no idea what I will work on this weekend. Might be fun to finish a Flea.
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